[Xastir] Shapefile maps

[David Ranch]

Hey Curt,

Could you show some screen captures of what these Vector maps look like 
within Xastir?

--David
KI6ZHD


On 12/15/2015 07:25 AM, Curt Mills wrote:
> Been watching the discussions regarding GeoPDF and Shapefile maps
> lately. Figured I'd point out this link which talks about Shapefile
> maps and where to get (some of) them:
>
>    https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shapefiles
>
> There are other sources as well, for instance your county GIS office.
>
> I personally prefer Shapefile maps for offline use: They are vector
> maps and therefore load quickly, plus Xastir has support for
> Shapefiles build in.
>
> The downside to Shapefiles: The DBF file can have all kinds of formats
> and field ordering, so you must create a DBFAWK file (DBFAWK's are
> specific to Xastir) for each type, which usually means for each
> source+type of map.
>
> Vector data are in the *.SHP files, indexes in the .SHX files. *.DBF
> files contain the labels which attach to the points/vectors/areas, and
> are the more variable portion that we have to adapt to. Xastir only
> needs those three pieces (we don't use *.PRJ or others) plus a DBFAWK
> file that matches.
>
> In the case of the NWS, we must update the DBFAWK's constantly 'cuz
> they keep changing the DBF files that go along with their maps (U.S.
> weather alerts).
>
> Not sure if that makes everything more confusing or not, but there ya' go.
>